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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. FRIDAY, OCTOBER 28, 1932.

CONTRACT BRIDGE

By W. E. McKenney

COUNCIL MEETING

FIRST READING OF BILL

ON COMPANY LAW

DIVORCE LAW DEFENDED

ATTORNEY GENERAL

At the meeting of the Legislative REPLIES TO MR. BRAGA Council yesterday afternoon. the At a bridge tournament you Attorney General, moving the

The Hon. Mr. J. P. Brogn found may often hear a pair remurs, second reading of "A Bill to secure

no support in his opposition to the "Well, we were in the right spot an increased trade between the Divorce Bill at the Legislature on that hand."

Colony and other parts of the Bri-Council yesterday. "Arriving at the correct declara- | Ush Empire," aald: llon, and putting in a bid that will throw the opposition off the This Bill and the Resolution ra- right track, is the Invourite pan-lating to a preference on Empire time of Mrs. Dorothy Rice Sims, brandy which was passed last week

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The Colonial Secretary seconded, and the Bill passed through its final stages.

Hon. Mr. Pavison: I don't think a very great deal of the Bill my self, to be quite candid, but from different motives from those 123 honourable friend has just re- vonled. I feel, no one of the stated, the Bill merely perpetuaten newspapers in an editorial has

all the abuses of the Divorce sys- not go nearly far enough, but tem in England: I think it does under the circumstances it is pro bably all we are going to get and

therefore I am quito prepared to accept it.

I have listened very patiently and with a great deal of interest to what my honourable friend has said, and I have been unable to understand the meaning of it. His argaments Illustrate the enormous Other Bills which passed their Churches and the ordinary lay difference there in between the fal atages were "A Bill to amend thought of to-day. It is perhaps the Supremo Court (Admiralty Procedure) Ordinance, 1896" and unfortunate, but I cannot for the "A Bill to amend Marriage Ordin-life of mo see how anyone making an unfortunate contract cannot ket out of it,

ance, 1875".

Company Law.

Moving the first reading of "A Bill to consolidate and amend the law relating to Companies", the | Altorney General said:

Government Replies.

The Attorney General:-Sir,- The first honourable member to address the Counell has done so at considerable length without rea

y dealing with any, of the four points mentioned in my speech on the first reading and which I wil now enumerate, restate and slight-

Mrs. Sims held the North cards. Sir, I rise to move the first South opened the bidding with reading of a Bill to consolidate and one spade. West passed.

amend the law relating to Com Many playera would now over-panics which has been prepared call with two clubs, but what is with a view to bringing the Com-ly claborate. the real advantage in North's pany law of the Colony into line hand? It is in having the hand with that prevailing in England. led up to rather than through.

in England in 1862, 1908 and 1929. club The Acts of 1802 and 1908

were

Mrs. Sims realized that with This is in accordance with prece. her holding there was not a prob-consolidations of the Company law dent. There have been three great able game in clubs; therefore, rather than disclose this holding, ahe bid two no trump East passed, and South, who did not feel that his hand suited for no trump, due to the doubleton club and the doubleton diamond, bid three spades, as. his partner's overcall of two no trump did not necessarily deny spades.

followed in 1865 and 1911 by Hung- kong Ordinances which correspond- As acting Attorney General nearly wased generally with their provisions. twenty-one years ago it fell to mu to move, the Third Reading of the latter Ordinance. The Act of 1929 Mrs. Sims again refused to dis- Acts amending it particularly the repealed the Act of 1908 and the close hor trump holding and de-Act of 1928, and re-enacted their cided to try for game at no trump, and therefore bid three no trump, which became the imal contract.

The Play.

the board.

If she had bid

Firstly a Bill to deal with divorce has been suggested to us by two successive Secretaries of State who must be presumed to be aware that, until implemented by an Order,in Council under the Indian

and Colonial Divorce affect very few persona. Jurisdiction Act, 1926, it will

Secondly an Alsatia in Hon kong for persons domiciled here has become an anomaly, owing to the development by Civil Jurisdic means. of giving relief from tions throughout the world of

civil contract. It is only Christian marriage, regarded as a marriage

with so rewarded that the

net result though not exactly Bill deale. The honourable mem the same language or according to her has pointed out that the de- the same arrangement. The object finit'on of Christian marriage or of the Act of 1929 as stated in a civil couivalent recognises the East had the opening, fend. Lord Hailsham's edition of Hals- status as that of a voluntary union Without a club bid by North, ne bury was to present the whole body for life of one man and one wo- has no reason for not wishing to of the subject in a complete form. upen his fourth best club, so the This Dill has a similar object. It Whilst stressing the words "for

man to the exclusion of all otheed ree of clubs was led. It was follows the Act very closely; but, life" the honourable member has now an саку Matter for Airs.us stated in the Memorandum of missed the point that the defini Sims to make four 1 t trump, Objects and Reasons on page 187 tion cannot be split into its com winch was the best score made on it has been necessary to incorporate ponent parts, but must be taken es special local provisions taken from whole and that the introduction her clubs andthe existing Ordinances. then later gone to no trump, East

of "others" into the exclusive might have opened a diamond and The introduction of this Ordin-union of two destroys the funda- then the best that North andce will necessitate considerable mental civil conception of that South could do on the hand would study by auditors and company section of indissolubility of the union union. With the religious concep e turee no trump-and that

ing generally, any one of auch per- we are not concerned. would require two hnessCH.

sons who is provided with a text book on the Act of 1929 should have little difficulty in ascertaining his duties under this Ordinance which, under section 357 on page 140 of the print, will not come into force until the 1st July next year. 1 now move the first reading.

The Colonial Secretary seconded, and the motion was carried.

PRINCESS ILL. INFANTA BEATRIZ OPERATED ON FOR APPENDICITS

London, Oct. 27. A report froni Fontainebleau states that the Infanta Beatriz, the elder daughter of Ex-King Alfonso of Spain, has been operated on for appendicitis.

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Thirdly. In its essentials precedent which is open to every they be, which have been stressed one of the objections, if objectiona by the honourable member. Yet the Straits Bill, which went fur- ther and required, what this Bill [loca not require. that petitioners should profess the Christian religion, hus been ap

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